Crime Statistics for Little Wyrley, Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Little Wyrley in September 2024. There were a total of 26 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Burglary.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Little Wyrley, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	11
Burglary	6
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Possession Of Weapons	1
Other Theft	1
Public Order	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
All Crime	26

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Little Wyrley. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Little Wyrley

We've taken the ten nearest places to Little Wyrley and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Little Wyrley has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Little Bloxwich (1.39 miles)	261
Fishley (1.39 miles)	261
Pelsall Wood (1.24 miles)	213
Pelsall (1.39 miles)	142
Landywood (1.39 miles)	93
Great Wyrley (1.75 miles)	80
Highbridge (0.88 miles)	73
Norton Canes (1.24 miles)	60
Little Wyrley	26
Hobble End	14

Where are the most violent places near Little Wyrley?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Little Wyrley and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Little Bloxwich	99
Fishley	99
Pelsall Wood	81
Landywood	59
Pelsall	58
Norton Canes	53
Great Wyrley	46
Highbridge	29
Little Wyrley	11
Hobble End	6

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Little Wyrley?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Little Wyrley to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Little Wyrley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Little Wyrley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Little Wyrley is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bloxwich East	74
2	Birchills Leamore	69
3	Essington	65
4	Bloxwich West	60
5	Norton Canes	49
6	Rushall-Shelfield	47
7	Brownhills	46
8	Pelsall	45
9	Great Wyrley Landywood	39
10	Great Wyrley Town	37
11	Cheslyn Hay South	19

Which road in Little Wyrley has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Little Wyrley with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Railswood Drive.